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Research academic, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University

Green shoots: a mangrove in Cairns enjoys the wet. Not all of Australia was so lucky. Guillaume Blanchard/Wikimedia Commons

February 22, 2017

Australia’s 2016 environment scorecard: rains return but in some cases too late

Albert Van Dijk, Australian National University and David Summers, Australian National University

Rain made a welcome comeback to Australia in 2016 after several years of deepening drought. But Tasmania and the Top End were among several places that did not fare so well.

Despite increases in some areas, Australia’s tree cover is at its lowest level in 40 years. Tree image from David Lade www.shutterstock.com

May 4, 2016

Environmental score card shows Australia is once again in decline

David Summers, Australian National University and Albert Van Dijk, Australian National University

After some unusually wet years, our landscape and ecosystems have once again returned to poorer conditions that were last experienced during the Millennium Drought.

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